Hi Becky,

If the links are justified, don't worry. I have clients with 3-400 and no problems with their positions in Google.

That doesn't mean to say it will be the same case for everyone though - each site is different and sometimes you can have too many, but just think it through and if you come to the conclusion that most of the links aren't needed and are stuffing keywords in, then look to make changes.

But on the whole, it doesn't sound like an issue to me - there are no hard and fast rules around this.

-Andy

Hi Sandi,

It will be almost impossible to see who has done this, but you have two options.

1. Contact the sites in question and request that the links are removed, or
2. Just disavow them

Disavowing is the solution most will take because it can be a lot quicker than trying to get hold of people at sites like these.

It is something you will have to stay on top of though - keep a check in Search Console for any new ones that pop up that shouldn't.

-Andy

How are your images being fed into the site? Are you using a CDN?

-Andy

Hi Julien,

I always start with robots.txt in these cases, but that looks OK.

Is anything being blocked by JS? Something else to look at is if you are using something like Wordpress, there are plugins that can block access to these without you realising.

Looking at the URL of the image, this appears to be hosted on a 3rd party site?

-Andy

This is hugely dependent upon what you want to do. There is certainly no outright SEO benefit to doing this.

Personally, I don't like naked domains and much prefer the www. version.

Have a read of this to see if you can gain any additional information.

-Andy

Hi Lise,

It isn't best to do this because Google won't give you any benefit for doing so (or very minimal at best), but what you need to do is to redirect the old URL to the new one (if you haven't already) as this will show Google that there is a new page in place. Otherwise you are just starting with a new page.

Don't change it back, but don't do this to other pages, unless you are making them friendly URL's.

-Andy